What is an ICE team?

The essence of the Interdisciplinary Capacity
Enhancement (ICE) Team grants is to provide support for new or
existing groups who can demonstrate that they are committed to
engendering a trans-disciplinary research culture and to attracting
into, engaging and mentoring junior researchers (faculty and
post-doctoral fellows not otherwise funded) or established researchers
who have not worked extensively in health research in the past, within
teams or networks working on themes that align with the priorities
identified by the Institutes.

What is GENESIS?

Gender and Sex Determinants of
Cardiovascular Disease: From Bench to Beyond (GENESIS)

What do we do?

Through the creation of a team of basic science,
clinical epidemiological, Juvederm
in Toronto and health services researchers, GENESIS is
investigating the sex and gender determinants for the development,
presentation, process of care and outcome of cardiovascular disease
(CVD) where "gender" determinants are behavioral and environmental
factors and "sex" determinants are biological and genetic factors.

In order to achieve conceptual and methodological
advancements and in the examination of gender and sex determinants of
CVD, 5 pilot projects promote intra- and inter-institutional
networking, collaborating and mentoring among Canadian researchers,
increase the participation of young investigators who are taking on
GENESIS related research projects, and build capacity for knowledge
translation by integrating routine knowledge translation plans into
team activities. Future research directions of these pilot projects
are the corner stone for several future large-scale projects,
including a cohort of Canadian individuals and a randomized controlled
trial enrolling Canadian women.